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SHANGHAI: Shanghai shares on Monday suffered their biggest one-day decline in more than eight years, plummeting 8.48 percent in defiance of government efforts to prop up the market. Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng index fell 3.09 percent, or 776.55 points, to 24,351.96 on turnover of...

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One of my countrymen tells a story of torture and punitive punishment at the notorious Guantanamo prison. He was incarcerated there for several months—imprisoned with a number of fellow insurgents. He told me that one dark night the lights were suddenly switched on, and when he looked up he saw...

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THIMPHU: I’m in the prayer hall of Tango Buddhist monastery high on a mountainside in Bhutan, watching as a woman performs chag, ritual prostrations before the Buddha. Three times she clasps her hands in the prayer position, brings them to the crown of her head, to her throat and then to her...